This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is only available in Dedicated Web Workers.
The close() method of the DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope interface discards any tasks queued in the DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope's event loop, effectively closing this particular scope.
close()
None.
None (undefined).
If you want to close your worker instance from inside the worker itself, you can call the following:
close();
close() and self.close() are effectively equivalent — both represent close() being called from inside the worker's inner scope.
Note: There is also a way to stop the worker from the main thread: the Worker.terminate method.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-dedicatedworkerglobalscope-close-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
close |
4 | 12 | 3.5 | 10.6 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 5 |
DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope/close